Shoe back and counter gage



0. SHIPPEE. Shoe-Backand Counter Gage. No. 243,408..

(No Model.)

Patented June 28,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. SHIPPEE, OF MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHOE BACK AND COUNTER GAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,408, dated June 28, 1881.

' Application filed November 26, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES W. SHIPPEE, of Milford, of the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boot and Shoe Back and Counter Gages; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the ac-ompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view; Fig. 2, an edge elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section of a gage embodying my invention, the purpose of such gage being to hold a boot or shoe back and counter in their true positions relatively to each other, and to so move them with relation to the needle and by the feeder of a sewing-machine as to cause the needle in sewing together such back and counter to do so parallel with the curved edge of the counter.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claims hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Arepresentsacircular plate ordisk arranged on and pivoted at its center to asupport arm or piece, B, which, when the article is in use is to be properly fixed to the baseplate of asewing-machine in a manner to cause the circumference of the disk to be nearly in contact with the needle of such machine, the same being as shown in Fig. 2, in which the needle is shown at O and the base-plate at D. To the upper face of the disk one or two sets of back and counter stops, to a and b b, are fixed, the counter-stops having holdin g-sprin gs c c projecting from them, as shown.

A boot or shoe counter generally has the form of the segment of a circle, or an approximation thereto, though it is not infrequently formed like the segment of an ellipse or an approximation thereto. \Vhen it has the latter form the support plate or disk A is to be connected with or applied to the baseplate of the sewing-machine or to the support-piece B, in a manner to cause the plate A, while being revolved by the action of the feeder on the work, to move the counter to cause the needle, while sewing it to a shoe or boot back, to perform the sewing in a line near and parallel to the curved edge of the counter.

1n using the shoe back and counter gage the counter is. to be first placed on the disk and pressed underneath two of the holding-sprin gs until its chord may bear against one set of the stops b b. Next the boot or shoe back is to be placed on the counter and its holding-springs, so that its lower edge may bear against the next adjacent back-stops a a.

In view of the arrangement of two sets of back and two sets of counter stops and two sets of springs, as shown in the drawings, it will be seen that the back and counter gage is capable of having two counters and two boot or shoe backs applied to it at one and the same time; but it may have but one set of backstops, one set of counter-stops, and one set of counter-holding springs. After thus having applied to the rotary support-plate a shoe or boot counter and a back, or two of such counters and two of such backs, and arranged the apparatus properly on the base-plate of a sewing-machine with respect to the needle and the feeder, the sewing-machine, on being put in operation, will turn the back and counter and their support-plate around so as to cause the needle to sew together the back to the counter in a line parallel with the arc of the counter. From this it will be seen that my invention saves the necessity of first marking on the back a line to indicate the direction of the sewing, the counter while being sewed to the back being so revered by the latter as to be out of sight of the attendant of the sewing-machine.

The disk or counter and back support plate with its stops and holding-springs may be pivoted or applied directly to the base-plate of the sewing-machine without the intervention of the arm or supportpiece; but it is preferable to have the latter, as by means of it the gage can be better removed from and applied to the sewing-machine, as occasion may require.

I claim- 1. The boot and shoe counter gage, substantially as described, for use with a sewing-machine, in manner as explained, it consisting of the disk or support plate and its set of back and counter stops and holding-springs, arranged substantia-lly as set forth.

2-. The sustaining-arm B, combined with the rotary disk A, and its back and counter stops and holding-springs, as explained, all being arranged and adapted substantially as and for use as set forth.

CHARLES W. SHIPPEE.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, WILLIE W. LUNT.

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